connorgurney
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My opinions are, of course, my own... If they weren't, they'd be someone else's opinions.
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Comment · 3 months ago
We used to have these back in the days of Windows XP in the form of “HTML Applications”, though I recall them being atrocious from a security perspective.
Comment · 4 months ago
I did similar several years ago with the .services TLD. Lo-and-behold, I bought the .com not long afterwards!
Comment · 5 months ago
I think this is one of the few things as late that makes me feel genuinely proud to be British, because, beneath the hostility that feels so rife across our country recently, we’ve so many good people making things like this happen. Bravo.
Comment · 5 months ago
Stripe handle this interestingly, with a prefix to the ID indicating the type of entity.
https://dev.to/4thzoa/designing-apis-for-humans-object-ids-3...
Comment · 6 months ago
This is a really fascinating idea… Just another one for the list of side-projects I’d like to get around to but never will!
Comment · 6 months ago
It most certainly does in the UK.
Comment · 7 months ago
The same day that OnlyOffice ended its 8-year partnership with Nextcloud, no less.
Comment · 7 months ago
The same day that The Document Foundation ejected its core developers, including much of the LibreOffice team, no less.
Comment · 7 months ago
At least they could make landing on a flat, non-spherical surface would be much easier, I guess.
Comment · 7 months ago
Certainly not a headline that I had on my bingo card for 2026…
Comment · 7 months ago
Update: It turns out that I was wrong. Sorry!
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pu...
Comment · 7 months ago
Indeed. I can’t see why Copilot would promote an unrelated third-party service…
Comment · 7 months ago
Ah, sorry, my bad - assumed you were referring to a business use-case, given the context, but makes sense.